Philip Metcalfe | |
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![]() Portrait (c. 1766–1767), oil on canvas, by Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787), National Portrait Gallery, London | |
Personal details | |
Born | London | 29 August 1733
Died | 26 August 1818 Brighton, Sussex | (aged 84)
Nationality | English |
Residence(s) | Hawstead House, Hawstead, Suffolk |
Occupation | Member of Parliament, Industrialist |
Philip Metcalfe, MP, FRS, FSA, (29 August 1733 – 26 August 1818), was an English Tory politician, a malt distiller and a philanthropist.
The Metcalfe family were from Yorkshire of the Catholic faith and Royalists during the Civil war.